Improvement in hubs foe wheels



G. E. `WHITlvIoRlsz.

Hub.

' Patented une 1867.

` No. 65 siii.

N4 PETERS. PHOTaLITHoGRAPMER. WASHINGTON. D. 7.

@Minh te atrnt @Hirn GEORGE E. WHITMORE, OF HOUSATONIO, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent A70. 65,521, dated Jane 4, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN HUBS FOR WHEELS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. WHITMORE, of Housatonic, in the county of Berkshire, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful improvement in the Hubs and Boxes for Wagon-Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full description.

The object of my improvement is to combine the elasticity of a wooden with the strength of an iron hub; and to attain it I make the box a a a a a. part of the hub, end on one end either east or securely fasten a. finnge, b b, which may be of such shape end size as it is desirable to'htwe the hub, :ind so constructed as to encase a. portion of the wooden parts of the hub c c c c. A similar Hnge, d! d, is fitted to the other end of the box, and held firmly against the wooden parte c c by a screw, e, or other equivalent. The wooden part c c, when nicely tted to the flanges on either end, is so secured endwise and to its'circlimference as to endure the hardest driving of the spoke. The wooden part is of such length as will permit the mortisej' to be beaten and the spoke g to be driven as in the common wooden huh. The hub is held upon the axle by a ring, h 7L, secured to the hub by the screws k c, and working beck of the fast collar z' z'. Oil is introduced into the hub through a hole closed by the screw Z, or it may be held on by :t nut on the outer end of the axle.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, by-whch the wooden ps1-rt of the huh is encased and supported at both ends and on its periphery by the iron fiangos, enabling the wheel-maker to drive the spoke firmly into the smallest hub, and

thus attaining the desired qualifications of elasticity and strength.

GEO. E. WHITMORE.

Witnesses:

E. S. PIXLEY, A. D. WHITMORE. 

